"Kenny" - Former Ghost Shadows Gang Member Interview (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Interview of Kenny Wong former member of the Chinese-American gang the Ghost Shadows from NYC’S Chinatown. The Ghost Shadows were active all around the country but centered in NY from the 1960s to the 1990s. In this interview Kenny talks about the full timeline of his gangster life and some Chinatown gang history.
For the full history of Chinatown gangs and more Asian gang content check out our sister channel Forgotten Streets.
Man i love this, channels like yours are giving us an inside and knowledge about a history that most of us didn´t even know it existed. But not like a history channel doc about "mafias", this is more personal, raw, and sincere. Thanks.
ghost shadow gang was so bad ass. Today these younger generation can’t imagine how crazy Chinese gangs were back in the 70s, 80s and 90s.They brawled with so many Spanish and black people. I remembered they had a brawl on FDR. It was near seaport pier 17. The ghost shadow had over 50 people and beef with rival gangs. The Rival gangs came with a lot of people but they didn’t expect all those short Chinese guys could fight like Jackie Chan. I still remember that brawl to this day because it was like something happened only in the movie.
What was the outcome? I also heard about a story of guys on Canal Street going at it with the Italians in the 80's
@@Hawk820gaming yup .. very true
Bro none of this is bad ass. smh
@@TheIsh1000 go back to the your room ..
Saw the article on CNN about this channel, watched this video and subscribed. Thank you for preserving history.
I’m from NYC. These interviews are so interesting and informative. When I was a kid, I use to hear about all this but now I get to hear the real scoop from ex members.
Finally an RUclips Channel about the chinese and asian Mafias. It changes videos about italian Mafia, Black gangsters or Latin cartels. Forgotten street is a good channel too ! I'll follow you 👍💯
As someone living in New york as soon as I heard the sirens in the video I immediately looked towards my window because it sounded like it was coming from outside lol. Great video though. As someone who came here from Ukraine and lived in Brighton Beach with family in the Russian mafia I find these stories super fascinating especially from other cultures.
😂😂😂Thank you for watching this channel
I had dinner with his uncle, Kit Jei, at Peter Luger's steak house in the early 80s. He was having a meeting about territory and about the head of the White Tigers and taking over Bayard street. At the table was, Kit Jei, his girlfriend at that time, Sandra and her older sister Carolyn and I think it was Onion Head "Chun Tou", and myself. After dinner, we drove back to 13 Mott to bring doggy bags for the gang kids. I'll spare the details. But, I will never forget that night.
was u in the movie green dragon?
@@biillyy Yes.
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My best friend's dad was in B2K I pretty much grew up in Jersey & the Bronx with Vietnamese homies & I never forget how serious such a gang was being dominican I saw early every culture had it's ghetto
I read that book by T.J. a decade ago about BTK. It was wild
@@PharoahsKingdom I'm only 27 but I thank god that in that age range of being a child late 90s early 00s I saw my father left the streets alone to take care of his family to raise me get away from everyone else & everything that began to fall one by one in such moments. My uncle's as well. I know so many stories that were never sugar coated to me as a child that I wish I could only put into a movie or T.V. series because it's that good. & I think that's why when I see these young kids today especially with this drill music none of it is impressive to me. 💯
b2k is a band, BTK is a gang. lol sorry
Just subscribed. Love what you guys are doing, i watch so many rubbish documentaries on gangs that feel, incorrect, but this feels more personal, acurate, raw & sincere, REAL.
I've watched many documentaries on gangs on yt, this is the way to go. Hope to see more content from you guys. ❤ & respect👍🙏
thank you for these interviews. amazing work
Thank you for following this channel. 👍
We need more ASAP 💯🙏
Chinatown Stories When?? I can’t wait
Chinatown Stories Thank you!
@@chinatowngangstories Need some BTK content. You remember the Sonny Boys back in the day? Always heard the name thrown around in the 90s but nothing else.
Great interview. Looking forward to the next one 👌🏻💎
Bruhhhh... CRAZZZYY 🤯🤯. We had Triad sects in Toronto from the 60's till even now but now they are more secretive . Back in the early 2000's they were POPPIN. Seen a few around my area too .
Thanks for putting this up!
I’m happy to see all the positive comments on this channel. Thank you
🔥🔥🔥🔥 yeah this here quality content
dope! you should do the rest of ghost shadows including china mac. also, flying dragon members.
@@chinatowngangstories Look forward to it. Just a suggestion; there has been hours and hours of content by Chinamac already online, so I hope you bring specific questions and specific content rather than him repeating the same life story he has already told on other channels.
Lol china mac
Ghost shadow was more like a street gang! They always had rumbled with gangs. Like they went to a different hoods for rumbled with other gangs. Chinese gangs back then were freaking crazy. They extorted, robbed and killed people like it was nothing! If you don’t believe me you can even ask the Hispanic and blacks people in the lower east side or someone in that era !
@@deroxanlit4181 Correct. Tong On gang also had a lot of street beef with Italian punks along the border of Little Italy and Chinatown. There used to be pool halls there and there were many Italians stabbed and shot, bottles broken on heads, and vice versa. The Chinese gangs never backed down back then and they had balls.
GS FD FC was real..died out like ealry 90s..then u got these fake ass wanna be
My left ear enjoyed this interview
These stories are so important. Cantonese. Chinatown is the lost history of America they've existed in every city for hundred of years
love your content, keep it up bro! i just turned on alerts for this channel!
Plz try to get a better mic or have them speak into it closer its hard to hear. Very excited for this channel. It seems to b very quiet. I liked n subscribed.
Great content!
Good interview
Audio only came out the left side on the phone
Gotta love this content
Ghost shadows is a sick gang name lol
It's cooler in Cantonese (Southern Chinese language).
@@lexbraxman9270 鬼影 - Gwei Ying
And the good stuff continues!
Yo clutch.
I was on the channel forgotten street. They put me on to this channel.
Information key 🔑 brother . I want more content out of u. I’m on Henry street by smith houses 🏘
Awesome
Really interesting but would it be possible to use a microphone that's not mono?
when up low the part2?
he sounds like an italian mobster with a Chinese twang lol
You know they're real Chinese when they sipping on " wang lao ji "
Love it！
i went to school at PS1 , UP THE BLOCK FROM CHINATOWN , went to school with a lot of these guys , you couldn't walk up Mott st / pell st back in the 70's 80"s if u weren't Chinese. 80's / 90's they was the plug for that china white .. facts .
Heard the owner of Chiu Hong Bakery on Mott was gway ying back in the day. Not sure but maybe another person to interview if you could confirm.
my right ear and right eye felt left out
It’s funny how organized crime was stopped by police and Giuliani in NYC in the 90’s. But the way things have changed in the city with politics, organized crime has made a big return
I remember when I was younger I’d chill with my homie and his older brothers were GSS and they were so serious yet chill. Always dressed up and well mannered, remember one of them coming home with dried blood on his hands and smelling like cigs.
Take out the mind, the body will fall
I have heard stories about a killer named 「葵仔/ Kwai Jai/ or it means bad boy in Cantonese 」, he was active in the 80s to 90s , are you able to find any information about this guy ? I heard that this guy was ruthless from my uncle saying that he killed a waitress complaining to him for not tipping and showed back up at the scene when police arrived and make sure she was dead .
Killing a waitress don’t make him a gangster. If we’re talking about the same guy, he didn’t last long. He was linked to Fox and beaten to a pulp by the Ghost Shadows and eventually killed by mid 1980’s Follow this channel for more on that story.
@@chinatowngangstories that’s why I said his a killer instead of being gangster , I heard he was killed inside a telephone booth while making a phone call
@@jeff346 No, kill inside phone booth was Joe Lai. I had a fist fight with him in Chinatown fair in 1981-2 both of us were around 14. Kwai Jai escaped to China. He is living in GZ now.
If chinamac isn’t interviewed, would love to hear his fellow gang members speak about him
He was probably the last generation to join in. Ain't gonna be much about it because the older gang members were busy taking care of bigger things than the little man.
I almost got recruited by Henry Ji in 8th grade. Gose shadow was in the way decline.
is the ghost shadows like the triads or no
No. Ghost Shadows had ties to a Triad . Follow this channel for more details
@@chinatowngangstories so how would this differ lets say to the italian mafia. Where theres different families (gambino, colombo....). I dont think we can define ghost shadows or flying dragons as street gangs becuz its under organized crime. Street gangs are all about pushin the set and gangbangin theres hardly any large scale businesses going on. Just a bunch of losers acting hard
The Italian (street soldier) money get kicked up to the top (Godfather)…With the Chinese, the money goes from the top (Dragon Head) to bottom (Liang Chai). More details to come on this channel.
@@LYCANCLANTEAM The Triads and some Tong are similar to the Italian Mafia.
Ghost Shadows,Flying Dragons and other are Chinese American Street gangs that work as the soldiers
for the Triads and Tongs. And they do rep their names and "gang bang" they just had a more organized crime side unlike some american street gangs like the bloods or crips who are very loosely organized.
BTK is no joke
I love you my son
I'm in San Francisco running
Handsome guy got any sons
nah born to kill more reckless
Yes, BTK was reckless and short lived. The Ghost Shadows lasted over 2 decades
My son Michael Branam Simmons and Hope hosanna had Octavia Buddha sister Lewiston Idaho area
Any born to kill content ?
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No disrespecting to this guy, but what happened to his eyes compared to his photo when he was younger. Is he tweaking? He looks like he hasn't sleep since 20 years.
It’s call aging